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as in bewildering
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
troops disoriented by the sudden change in battle plans
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Recent Examples of disorienting
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
Over the past four decades, Chile has made a disorienting journey from state of terror to hopeful democracy to queasy malaise.
—Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
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The disorienting tone is set immediately by pilot director Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
Over the past four decades, Chile has made a disorienting journey from state of terror to hopeful democracy to queasy malaise.
—Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disorienting
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Making sense of what the affable and passionate Che is up to at his tiny restaurant can be perplexing.Matthew Odam, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
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Pope No position encapsulates Newcastle’s perplexing summer better than the incomplete reshuffling of the goalkeeper department.Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024
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Even by the standards of long-shot campaigns, this one has made some baffling missteps.Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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My friend Bud, who lives around the corner from me in Florida half the year and in his North Carolina cabin the other half, recently texted me with a baffling problem.Marni Jameson, arkansasonline.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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The most puzzling reveal was a new suspect sketch, reportedly drawn early in 2017.Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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These conflicting versions created a puzzling cognitive dissonance.Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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For Harris’s oldest friends from the Bay Area, who supported her campaigns for San Francisco District Attorney, state Attorney General, U.S. Senator and Vice President, the possibility of a Trump win was bewildering.Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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The proud Warriors were failing more often in increasingly bewildering ways, generating a perpetual blame game that was leaning Thompson’s way more than ever before.Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
Adjective
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To minimize misinterpretations, providing clear guidelines for writing test instructions and avoiding ambiguous phrasing is key.Asad Khan, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Sunny is the creation of Suzie’s husband, who died under ambiguous circumstances, leaving her alone in their life in Kyoto.Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
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The biography’s theme is that Carson is essentially unknowable.Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2024
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Daemon has spent several episodes (and some completely unknowable amount of in-world time) messing around at Harrenhal and taking whatever hallucinogens Alys Rivers slips into his tea.Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2024
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The rest of the world finds this arrangement incomprehensible.Joseph J. Ellis, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Their contributions to my life are incomprehensible.Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Disorienting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disorienting. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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